Hawaiʻi lawmakers have an opportunity to tailor the sales tax on real property so that it reinvests nonresident wealth into our island communities through affordable housing development.

In a new report, Hawaiʻi Appleseed researchers demonstrate how chronically low wages have prevented Hawaiʻi’s working families from thriving, and outline the significant cost that poverty exacts from these families, from future generations, and from all of us.

Study aims to ascertain whether or not there are ways to increase housing stability by examining the temporary measures Hawaiʻi put into place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The merger of these social justice organizations is meant to forge a stronger connection between data-driven policy and impacted communities.

The 50-year advocate for the low-income community and founder of Hawaiʻi Appleseed Center for Law & Economic Justice will retire on August 31, 2019.

Renters need to work a total of 143 hours a week at minimum wage to afford a two-bedroom apartment.

Recommendations for policymakers on how to address our highest-in-the-nation housing costs and associated socioeconomic problems.